Error updating emacs packages: Failed to download 'gnu' archive

Question

My init.el uses this to initialize packages:

(package-initialize)
(add-to-list \'package-archives \'(\"gnu\" . \"http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/\"))
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Answer 1

Looks like a bug in your version of Emacs. You can probably circumvent it by setting package-check-signature to nil.